The Origins of Heartbreak: A Lesbian Medical Romance by Cara Malone

Author:Cara Malone [Malone, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-15T06:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

The following morning, Megan awoke to her phone ringing. She jerked out of sleep, snatching the phone off her dresser and answering without looking at the caller ID because no one ever called her so early in the morning. With all the anxiety and precautions surrounding the meningitis exposure, she was half worried that someone was calling to deliver her bad news.

“Hello?”

“Hey, Megan,” an unfamiliar female voice said, and it was friendly in a way that made it pretty unlikely that this was the bad kind of early morning phone call. “It’s Krys Stevens from Lakeside Hospital. Do you remember me?”

“Oh, hi Krys,” Megan said, relaxing. “Yes, of course.”

She’d gone back to the hospital a few days ago to steal a few more minutes of Dr. Stevens’ time. They talked about the precautions that the ER had taken after their unwitting exposure to meningitis. Once again, Dr. Stevens had been pulled away when an ambulance arrived, but Megan had given Krys her phone number in case she remembered any more details of the case for her research paper.

“I wanted to let you know we had a second case of bacterial meningitis last night,” Krys said. “A fifteen-year-old who was rushed in with a high fever and vomiting after he left football practice.”

“Oh no,” Megan said.

“He’s going to be fine,” Krys added quickly. “His treatment was started in time and we’re expecting him to make a full recovery.”

“Oh, good,” Megan said with relief. “So was it the same strain of bacteria?”

“Yep, Neisseria,” Krys said. “His school is taking this very seriously. They want to avoid any chance of the disease spreading further, so we’re going to take swabs and order antibiotics for the entire student body, as well as the staff. I figured you’d be interested to hear about it, and if you’re available, we could use extra help on swab day. Are you interested?”

“Hell yeah,” Megan said, putting her hand self-consciously to her mouth as she realized that was a less than professional response. She asked, “When?”

“First thing tomorrow,” Krys said. “We had to get the antibiotics shipped in because we don’t normally have large quantities like that on hand, but we can’t put it off long. We’ve already distributed an information sheet to parents so they can look out for any suspicious symptoms in the meantime. So you’re in?”

“Absolutely,” Megan said. She grabbed a sheet of paper off her desk and jotted down the details, including the school’s address, and then hung up the phone with a huge grin on her face. This would make for an excellent learning opportunity, and a very compelling research project that would certainly upstage whatever inconsequential literature review Ivy turned in.

The first thing Megan did was send an email to Dr. Morrow explaining why she would be absent from his lecture tomorrow. The second thing she did was call Alex. She knew she shouldn’t do anything to draw Alex back into the romantic direction that they’d been going in, but Megan still liked her as a friend and this would be a fantastic learning experience for her, too.

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